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False Interpretation of ISS
Conference Corrected;
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Although I am now an almuna, I

am exercising my rights as a sub-

scriber and addressing this letter
to you because I feel the writer of
your last article on International

Student Service may have created

a false impression among readers







___.of the. News.

In the News ‘of Sanuavy- ‘15, it
was stated that although I. S. S.
was formed for the purpose of pro-
viding relief for European stu-
dents, it is today a “hot-bed” of
political harangue.” Such a state-
ment is far from accurate.

International Student Service to-
day is one of the foremost agencies
in the field of refugee placement.
Since the fall of 1938, upwards of
three hundred refugee students
have found scholarships in the
United States through the efforts
of this organization. In Europe
today I. S. S. and the World Stu-
dent Christian Federation are the
two prominent organizations work-
ing for the relief of student prison-
ers of war, internees, and political
refugees. The work of I. S. S. is
recognized by students in this coun-
try as a valid effort to preserve in-
tellectual leadership to the rising
generation despite the vicissitudes
of war and international anarchy.
Many colleges contribute annually
to its support. Bryn Mawr is one
of them.

Those who have worked for I. S.
S. over a period of years have felt,
however, that there is a crying
need in this country today for an
organization which is not a pres-
sure group, for a non-policy organ-
ization which ‘will bring students
together for an exchange of veiws
on current problems. That is why
we have sponsored unbiased, im-
partial, non-resolution conferences.
These conferences have gained in
popularity among students today.
At our most recent conference, the
one on “How Youth Can Serve De-
mocracy” at New Jersey College
for Women, there was a definite at-
tempt on the part of one well-
known student pressure group to
“pack” the meetings because the
conference seemed significant and
because it Was a good opportunity
to attempt to indoctrinate liberal
students with one point of view.
The I. S. S. committee was forced
to take drastic steps to prevent this
from happening, but unfortunately
a large group of people gained the
impression that I. S. S. was becom-
ing. a political center with various
groups trying to gain control.
Through it all the staff and
the committee have maintained a
reputation for impartiality and we
hope that we shall not become in-
volved. in a similar problem again.
We hope to dissipate the rumor that
we are now actively engaged in po-
litical manouevers since it has no
foundation in fact.

The article in the News had one
other inaccuracy to which I am
obliged. to call attention. The con-
ference was not called. to perpetrate
a merger between I. S. S. and the
National Student Federation of
America. This merger was pro-
posed by members of the Board of
N. S. F. A. after the joint meet-
ings had been planned. The reason
for the joint meetings was one of
mutual convenience, since the over-
head involved in opening a campus
during the holidays is high and
competition for prominent. speakers | 5

for- student gatherings is. great,|

The proposal for merger was made:
by N.S. F. A. Ft was approved |
by such prominent educators.as Dr. | 3



- Stephen Duggan of the Institute of |:3
ducation and Presi- |S

International &
dent’ Morley of: Haverford, among
others. I. S. S. agreed a

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merger failed by nine votes. The
issue was somewhat confused by the
fact that the N. S. F. A. voted to
disaffiliate.with _ the _ American
“Youth Congress at the same meet-
ing. It is interesting to note that
the most active opponents of the
merger with I. S. S. were the most
ardent advocates of continued affili-
ation with the American’ Youth
Congress.

“J. S. S. will continue to sponsor
student conferences in the belief
that only by an impartial presenta-
tion of various points of view and
by an unbiased discussion of all
problems will — arrive at in-
telligent opinions on’the issues of
the day and contribute to their so-
lution. We shall need the support
of sensitive and alert thinkers on
every campus to succeed. ' We
should not ‘like to feel that Bryn
Mawr had a false impression of
our work. The integrity of our
committee and the staff who carry
out its dictates cannot be doubted.

LovuISE MorR.eEy, ’40,
Conference Secretary,
International Student Service.



Are We Building Democracy?
What Steve Hutchins said at the
Undergraduate meeting about a
college focal point, and what our
representatives at the Student
Union Conference said about pre-
serving democracy gave me a good
start toward saying something I
have been wanting to express, in
continuation of this idea.

We think a lot about democracy,
of course. We believe in its value
and in doing everything possible to
preserve it. We want the United
States to have real democracy. Can
it have that if the democratic spirit
is not a very vital thing to every-
one who makes up this country?
Before a country can have this
strong democratic spirit, its indi-
viduals must have it.

Let’s think about ourselves, here,
at college. Are we really demo-
cratic in our attitudes? I believe
democracy is like the proverbial
charity—it begins at home. De-
mocracy emphasizes the dignity and
value of the individual, every indi-
vidual, and it seeks to bring within
his reach an abundant life. Are we
giving this idea the greatest sup-
port of which we are capable?

If we cannot be really democratic
in the relatively narrow. sphere of
college, how can we expect to be of
service in a far bigger world?
Democracy is not a passive thing;
it is not one of those things that is
the absence of its opposite. De-
mocracy is active and vital, and it
calls for real action in its preserva-
tion. Behind every action is a
fundamental motive, and behind the
motive, an attitude. To act right
we must have the right attitudes.
We talk a good deal about preserv-
ing our country’s democracy. But
don’t some of us overlook, perhaps,
the very places where we as indi-
viduals ‘can help to strengthen de-
mocracy?. I am not talking here
about the things. some. people are
doing with democratic organiza-
tions, war work, or other charity

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‘with the same people, sometimes.
But if we concentrated more





Mrs. Algor Succeeds
As Labor School Head

The Board of Directors of the |
Hudson Shore Labor School has |
announced the appointment of
Mrs. Marie Elliott Algor as direc-
tor of the School. Mrs. Ale geiey (c.
succeed Hilda Smith who was
forced by illness last year to re-
sign from the position.

A graduate of the University of
Nebraska, Mrs. Algor took her M.
A.*in Economics at Columbia and
has completed her course work for



field.

In the professional field, she has
been a ¥Y. W. ©. A. industrial sec-
retary and for three years was in
charge of the cafeteria and _resi-
dence. of the Kensington, -Philadel-
phia branch. Her teaching .exper-
ience in workers’ educational direc-
torship for eight months of the
International Ladies’ Garment
Workers in Philadelphia, and the
position of supervisor of leader-
ship education in the Philadelphia
W. P. A. where for the last few
years she has headed a staff of
15 supervisors in various. fields,
including workers’ education.



work. That is fine; I am not criti-
cizing it at all. I am thinking
about our own attitudes, right in
college life itself, toward one an-
other.

Here is where I want to bring in
the focal point. When the discus-
sion about having Big May Day
came up, someone mentioned how
good it would be for us to have a
focal point, like May Day, where |
every single person would throw
herself into it, enthusiastically and
wholeheartedly. I think we need a
focal point, too, And the one I sug-
gest we try is working toward mak-
ing our college into a little democ-,
racy, a unified body of people who
are working together, as friends,
and not separated as strangers or
as antagonists. You say, “but we
are that way! Look at self-gov-
ernment, etc., etc.” Well, perhaps
you are the people who are really
democratic, because there are a lot
of people who are. I am, however,
speaking of something deeper down
than the plan of our government,
clubs, and other organizations.

T-think we ought to change our
attitudes toward people we consider
different from us because of race,
creed, social class, economic class,
etc. We say we do not believe in
such barriers; we oppose violently
Hitler’s expulsion of Non-Aryans
from Germany. Yet are we not
sometimes violating our own. real
principles and ideals in the way we
think of some people right close at
hand, among us here, whom we
consider inferior for no other rea-
son than that they differ externally
somehow?

I do not agree with those who
hold that people should not have
best friends and should not be
closer to some people than to others.
But don’t we go around disliking
people a good deal more than we
ought to? We don’t even get to
know them; we just say we don’t
like so-and-so, and let it go at that.
Is that helping the cause of democ-
racy? I do not advocate that we
suddenly start feeling terribly af-
fectionate towards everybody in col-
lege. I advocate facing facts and
breaking down prejudices. There
is no denying, that we do have
cliques; and go around too much

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Radnor Walky

(With apologies to Lewis Carrol
-and, Others)
"Twas brillig and the Swindler
Chew’d
A Sprague of Herben. in the Park;
All Therrien were the Broughton
brood—

Ro eard the Robbins bark.

Nahm were the Crenshaw and the
Carpenter,

And dumb the Soper’s moan:

Northrup from his Lehr the wily
Taylor came,

A-hunting for the Sloane.

The Miller crouched in the Reids

To watch the onslaught vile,

And Kraussly Shultz the Wheeler
Weiss

For trying-not to smile,

Gray were the Ash-y Stapletons,
The Manning fled like any Dietz,—
He would not stay to face the foe
And Keator for the eats!

The Taylor stirred the Forrest
Wells,

And gave,a little cough,—

Pouf!—in the Fenwick’s murky
depths

The Cameronian Schenk made off!

The Sloane swam round and round
and round,
Like a sick and Leary tuna;
The Taylor reared, and lunged,—
and then
Fell in the Delaguna,,
RADNOR.

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looking for the good side in those
“outsiders” and concentrated less
on clever ways to get rid of “ob-
jectionable” people, we would be
spending our time to advantage and
doing something constructive and
not destructive.

Our whole American system is
built on the idea of working to-
gether... We cannot do that unless
we are unified. We cannot be uni-
fied unless we are willing to work
with people and not merely in spite
of them, I think we all would like
to feel that we, as a college, are



Mr. Michael Heilperin
Lectures in Series on
“The New Peace”

Mr. Michael Heilperin will open
the series of lectures on The New
Peace with: aietetas,
‘jointly by Bryn "Mawr, Haverford
and Swarthmore colleges. Mr.
Heilperin’s subject, Economic Fac-
tors of the New Peace, will be fol-
lowed by a lecture on the legal prin-
ciples involved to be given by Dr.
Frances R. Fussell of Swarthmore.
Later there will be a discussion of.
The Institutional Framework of the
peace presented by Dr. Benjamin
Gerig, of Haverford.

Mr. Heilperin will discuss the
question of international monetary
stability, the problem of counter-
acting economic nationalism, and
the possibility of attaining inter-
national stability within the frame-
work of a reorganized League of
Nations. His lecture will be given
at 8.15 in Roberts Hall, Haverford.

The series will be presented at
Haverford college, and bus trans-
portation will be arranged. The
program will be repeated at
Swarthmore, with Miss Helen Reid
presenting the lecture on Legal
principles.





more unified and more conscious of
working together. That is. why
that person brought up the much-
welcomed idea of a focal point.

‘But we do not.need Big May Day

in order to have a focal point.
There are plenty of focal points ly-
ing around just waiting to be taken
up, and the one I suggest is an ex-

ample of something I think we |

could do. And if we all wanted to

do it, and all worked together on it,

we would be sure to succeed!
ANONYMOUS.

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